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OJ 8/5, [3] - Handwritten picture postcard from Schenker to Violin, dated March 14, 1931

{recto}
⇧ Postkarte

[top-left, landscape photograph captioned: "Ruine Aggstein – Niederösterreich"]

[Absender:] ⇧ Schenker
Wien, III
Keilgasse 8

[An:] H Prof. M. Violin
Hamburg
Haynstr. 13

[postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 14.III.31 18 | * [?4] * ||

{verso}

Fl! 1

Hurrah! Sind sehr erfreut, dich hier zu sehen!

Hurrah!

Diese Karte soll dich zum Voraus begrüßen, dir entgegenwinken, wie die Hand eines auf dem „Perron“ 2 Wartenden!


Viele Grüße dir u. den l. deinigen
von mir u. LieLiechen
dein
[signed:] H

14. 3. 31

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2015
{recto}
⇧ Postcard

[top-left, landscape photograph captioned: "Aggstein Ruins – Lower Austria"]

[From:] ⇧ Schenker
Vienna III
Keilgasse 8

[To:] Prof. M. Violin
Hamburg
Haynstraße 13

[postmark:] || 3 VIENNA 40 | 14.III.31 18 | * [?4] * ||

{verso}

Floriz, 1

Hurrah! We shall be very glad to see you here!

Hurrah!

This postcard is intended to greet you in advance, to wave back to you, like the hand of someone who is waiting for you on the “grand staircase.” 2


Many greetings to you and your dear family
from me and Lie-Liechen
Your
[signed:] H.

March 14, 1931

© Translation William Drabkin, 2015
{recto}
⇧ Postkarte

[top-left, landscape photograph captioned: "Ruine Aggstein – Niederösterreich"]

[Absender:] ⇧ Schenker
Wien, III
Keilgasse 8

[An:] H Prof. M. Violin
Hamburg
Haynstr. 13

[postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 14.III.31 18 | * [?4] * ||

{verso}

Fl! 1

Hurrah! Sind sehr erfreut, dich hier zu sehen!

Hurrah!

Diese Karte soll dich zum Voraus begrüßen, dir entgegenwinken, wie die Hand eines auf dem „Perron“ 2 Wartenden!


Viele Grüße dir u. den l. deinigen
von mir u. LieLiechen
dein
[signed:] H

14. 3. 31

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2015
{recto}
⇧ Postcard

[top-left, landscape photograph captioned: "Aggstein Ruins – Lower Austria"]

[From:] ⇧ Schenker
Vienna III
Keilgasse 8

[To:] Prof. M. Violin
Hamburg
Haynstraße 13

[postmark:] || 3 VIENNA 40 | 14.III.31 18 | * [?4] * ||

{verso}

Floriz, 1

Hurrah! We shall be very glad to see you here!

Hurrah!

This postcard is intended to greet you in advance, to wave back to you, like the hand of someone who is waiting for you on the “grand staircase.” 2


Many greetings to you and your dear family
from me and Lie-Liechen
Your
[signed:] H.

March 14, 1931

© Translation William Drabkin, 2015

Footnotes

1 Writing of this postcard is recorded in Schenker's diary for March 14, 1931: “An Fl. (K.): Begrüßung!” (“To Floriz (postcard): Greetings!”)

2 “Perron”: the grand staircase on the outside of a building, or the platform of a railway station.

Commentary

Format
Printed picture postcard: printed picture, holograph sender and recipient addresses, recto; holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature, verso
Rights Holder
Heirs of Heinrich Schenker, deemed to be in the public domain
Provenance
Violin, Moriz (document date-1956)--Heirs of Moriz Violin (1956-197?)--University of California, Riverside (197?--)
License
All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Documents Online, at schenkercorrespondence [at] mus (dot) cam (dot) ac (dot) uk

Digital version created: 2022-03-01
Last updated: 2013-07-04